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Security Best Practice Guidance to Disrupt Lateral Movement

Credential harvesting and reuse in the form of lateral movement within a domain is a well-known technique amongst security defenders and hackers alike. Recently, we have seen new threats building on these age old tactics to build new sophisticated multi-threaded pieces of automation that present greater risks to customers once a piece of malware compromises a host on a network. Based on these learnings from these incidents, we want to highlight a few resources to help customers prevent or disrupt credential harvesting and lateral movement. As always, we recommend customers install the latest updates available, but as evidenced in the latest incidents, a defense-in-depth strategy is the best protection against modern malware.